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• Professor, Musicology, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• B.A. in Musicology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980
• M.A. in Musicology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984
• Ph.D. in Musicology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991

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Kristina Muxfeldt's research interests include music history, biography, analysis, and reception, with particular emphasis on the cultural and social environment of early nineteenth-century music, as well as opera in Weimar and Vienna.

Her publications have appeared in The Literature of German Romanticism, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and 19th-Century Music.

Her recent papers and lectureshave addressed Schubert's last operatic project, constructs of memory in Schumann and Beethoven, and various studies of Schubert's poetic texts.

A 1986-87 Fullbright scholar, Ms. Muxfeldt studied at the University of Vienna and in 1980-81 at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Stuttgart. Her awards include the A. Whitney Briswold Faculty Research Grant for research in Vienna and Weimar, nomination for the Yale Graduate Mentoring Award, a Stony Brook Dissertation Fellowship and the Fulbright Grant.